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diSessa, Andrea A. – Cognitive Science, 2014
This work uses microgenetic study of classroom learning to illuminate (1) the role of pre-instructional student knowledge in the construction of normative scientific knowledge, and (2) the learning mechanisms that drive change. Three enactments of an instructional sequence designed to lead to a scientific understanding of thermal equilibration are…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Prior Learning, Causal Models, Science Instruction